BIOL6113

This course is an in-depth exploration of the cause and effect relationship between diet and common disease processes. This course will examine nutritional epidemiology, nutritional intervention and the research that substantiates both. The relationship of nutrition to common maladies, such as: obesity, diabetes mellitus and cancer, will be compared. Additionally, specific disease processes will be evaluated from a nutritional perspective, including: neurodegenerative, cardiovascular; gastrointestinal and bone disease. The course will conclude by determining the nutritional and dietary factors necessary for proper healing and recovery.